Has anyone read the Martin Palmer translation of Three Kingdoms? How does it compare to Roberts?

Where are my Journey to the West/ 西游记 fans? I have a question: In Chapter 54, in the Country of Women, there's a scene where Sun Wukong promises that Tang Sanzang will marry the queen, as a way of stalling for more time. The monk gets upset at him for this and Wukong gives a little speech:

A great primer on Taiwan with an interview with Shelley Rigger, would be good for undergrad classes:

I’m not going to detract from Deep Springs, which is amazing, but please NYT check out what some land grant universities are doing sometime:

East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.

There was already controversy about Schmidt on campus on two fronts: First, the allegations against him. Second, the granting of an honorary doctorate upon him that seemed to bypass the usual faculty governance vetting process.

There was already controversy about Schmidt on campus on two fronts: First, the allegations against him. Second, the granting of an honorary doctorate upon him that seemed to bypass the usual faculty governance vetting process.

We are down three premodern Chinese positions over three years here—two in Buddhism and one in early thought and history….

At a time when everything I read about higher ed is The Ongoing Crisis™--diminishing attention spans, poor literacy, AI threats, cuts, etc--reading a long novel like Plum in the Golden Vase with a handful of smart, motivated undergrad and grad students was just fantastic this semester. Made my year.

New Boards of Canada, Massive Attack, and Nine Inch Nails (Noize)? In the same week?? What year is it???

An online museum of Chinese cigarette packaging art. [ciggies.app]

I’m curious about MAs in East Asian Studies. If you have a PhD or are working on one, did you get a standalone MA first? Was it required for admission to your PhD program?

“Mourning the Ming” and the “1644 historical view” on Rednote (Chinese and English): chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/2025

New from the innovative CUHK Press, looking forward to reading this one!

Greeting from Vancouver, Canada, home of the mighty DOA youtu.be/jqR9SQGrlBE

名不正，則言不順；言不順，則事不成。

so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"

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Another new one! Women Writers of Huizhou by Bin Bin Yang (UW Press)

Looking forward to reading this one, Peng Xu’s new book The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama (U Mich Press)

U of Arizona East Asian Studies is hiring a tenure-track Chinese Language Program director! I'm happy to answer any questions about it, the department, Tucson, etc. Please circulate widely:

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

Playing around with AppleScript to automate boring professor stuff and how did I go so long without doing this?

This would be the end of the University of Arizona's Center for East Asian Studies:

Inside Higher Ed reporting on funding for National Resource Centers like the one here at University of Arizona. If the already-awarded federal funds are not released by 9/30, they are gone and the Center for East Asian Studies will likely close.

We founded the U of Arizona Center for East Asian Studies three years ago with a US Dept of Education grant. Last Friday marked the end of year 3 of 4. Though the grant was for four years, we have not received word about year 4 funding. Without this support, we have no choice but to close down.

It's officially my book's publication date! The online open access version is available now, link below. Read online or download the pdf copy I want you to have, all without having to go to some shady website for a pirated copy! www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Start your weekend with an ambient DJ tea ceremony

Ariel Stilerman - Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan À paraître en mars aux Harvard UP

Start your day by watching James Brown commandeer David Letterman's show

Speaking of Genji, if anyone is interested, the audiobook of the Tyler translation, read by Brian Nishii, is quite good. Somebody please get him to do a Heike audiobook!

A job going in Singapore! ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

Living for those green smileys... Tideman here I come! #CS50x

Love to see those green smileys.... #CS50

Did the excellent @cs50.harvard.edu Python first, now going back to do the "big" CS50. Spending a lot of time thinking, "This would be SO much easier in Python than C...." Also, entering forgotten semicolons....

not looking good for Princeton University Press is it @princetonupress.bsky.social the video can be found on Facebook www.facebook.com/share/v/16Rv...

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Look what just landed on my doorstep, the Rutledge Handbook of Traditional Chinese Literature with my Water Margin entry!

“Is it such a stretch to imagine remix culture coming to reading? Which of the many versions of New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ is the real one?” Oh man, do I have a book about early modern Chinese fiction for you!

Next they will be talking about the Decline of Western Civilization

“The Fulbright Program's mission is to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.” — Senator J. William Fulbright

Imre Galambos talking to Joachim Gentz about oracle bones as objects, a good one!

Are you interested in studying Tibetan? The Center for East Asian Studies is offering a Tibetan language tuition-waived program funded by the US Dept. of Education with the cooperation of the University of Kansas. Fill out this interest form by June 20th: tinyurl.com/CEAS-Tibet

The FY 2026 budget proposal from the Department of Education zeroes out funding for foreign language and international programs in higher education (Title VI). www.ed.gov/about/ed-ove...

Bob Mould (!) gave a commencement address at his alma mater, Macalester College

The proposed federal budget cancels international education and foreign language studies funding completely

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